On the 28th of May, the CISPES Solidarity Cyclers Ride for 2018 returned to DC after three days and about 170 miles on the road. This year, the route was changed to avoid flooding or flood-damaged trails in Fredrick, MD. The normal route is 180 miles, this year's route was a bit less. The ride raised about $14,000 for CISPES and their solidarity work for hard-pressed Salvadorans and Salvadoran migrants.
During the final portion of the ride, a photographer managed to remove an illegally posted "build the wall" sticker left on a trail structure by a racist Donald Trump supporter. The ride ended at a welcome party not far from Rock Creek Park. The focus of the ride was to raise funds for CISPES's grass roots campaigns. At the welcome party the crisis created by Donald Trump's revocation of TPS or Temporary Protected Status was brought up. Trump is threatening hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans with deportation unless they either find another status, break off all contact with ICE and the U$ goverment, or leave on their own. Still more migrants from other nations such as Haiti are similarily under the gun for Trump's racist roundups.